History
Index level from the base of 1,000.00 on 31 December 1976 to 146,061.16 on 19 September 2026, and every official close since that date. Total return, US dollars, on a logarithmic scale, so that equal percentage moves occupy equal vertical space. Move across the chart to read any point.
Levels before 19 September 2026 are back-calculated and would not have been available at the time.
Level
72,546.58
Date
Sep 2026
Since base
72.55×
From peak
0.0%
Log scale. Shaded spans mark drawdowns of fifteen percent or more from a prior peak. Left of the dashed line is the back-history: the S&P 500 with its dividends to 1984, MSCI World and MSCI ACWI with dividends reinvested at the S&P 500's yield to mid-2008, and Vanguard's Total World Stock ETF (VT) with dividends reinvested to launch, chained at the joins, monthly to 2008 and daily after. Right of it, the live record, one point per official close, ending at the current level. 10.55 percent a year across the whole record with dividends reinvested; on price alone the same fifty years give 7.60 percent and a level of 38,093.
Declines of fifteen percent or more from a prior peak, measured peak to trough, with the time taken to recover the prior peak.
| Peak | Trough | Decline | Months down | Months to recover |
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